Omaha Public Power District is recommending that its Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station end operations by the end of 2016.

Former NYISO CEO Stephen Whitley emphasized the importance of infrastructure in his keynote speech  at NECA’s 23rd Annual New England Energy Conference.

NRC ruled the original study underestimated the economic impacts of a severe accident at Indian Point.

Exelon said it will close Clinton next summer and Quad Cities the following year if Illinois legislators fail to pass a bill to shore up the nuclear plants.

The closure of Entergy’s FitzPatrick nuclear plant will not impact reliability or leave New York short of generation in 2019.

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed its first major energy bill in almost a decade but faces a tight calendar to reach agreement with the House.

Entergy said it intends to refuel the Pilgrim nuclear power plant next year and then cease operations on May 31, 2019.

The appeal lent support to Illinois legislation that would shore up Exelon’s struggling nuclear plants with $300 million per year.

Speakers at EUCI’s US-Canada Cross-Border Power Summit discussed the challenges of natural gas' rapid rise and displacement of other resources.

On-peak day-ahead electricity prices in the U.S. were down 27 to 35% in 2015 due to cheap natural gas, FERC staff said in its State of the Markets report.